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Ilkin Mehrabov

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Turkey and the 'Copyleft' Music Production: Reflections on Bandista

Author

  • Ilkin Mehrabov

Summary, in English

This article focuses on copyleft music production in Turkey through a case study on Bandista, a music collective with strong oppositional stance formed in 2006 in Istanbul. Describing its musical performances as "situationist experiment of rage and rapture" Bandista became immensely popular in the Turkish political music scenery after releasing its debut album De te fabula narratur in 2009 under the copyleft scheme. The article tries to look at the copyleft with the notion of 'music as performance' in mind, and argues that copyleft politics are essential, especially for new music bands to form themselves as independent actors within the music scene.

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Pages

80-90

Publication/Series

IASPM Journal

Volume

3

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

International Association for the Study of Popular Music

Topic

  • Media and Communications

Status

Published